"Cool."

Cahmro finds some people who know how to build houses. "We could get an architect but we could also just dick around with an architecture app and use that."

"Let's do that. Are there building codes and shit?"

"Oh, yeah, probably." A builder friend knows these things. They are not substantially restrained if they own the plot and there aren't neighbors.

"How do we set about owning the plot exactly."

The government is selling it off! They can get a parcel large enough for a big house and a yard for a sum that Dave can handle pretty readily.

Dave is delighted to be buying a house on the frontier. "It's not even awful because of the native Americans."

"The who?"

"Oh, like when we were settling the real frontier we were murdering the locals."

"Oh, yeah, everybody did that."

"Yeah but it's still horrible. This is all the settling the frontier without any murdering."

"Definitely better."

"There's a project to get them all back now, course, but it's complicated."

"How come?"

"Like, you're waking up in such a different world - people don't do as well if they haven't got anything they can do and anyone counting on them - you were murdered when your kid wasn't yet one and they grew up and died of old age, what do you do with that -"

"Haven't y'all been doing this long enough that you have something for that? Beats me what, but..."

"They could make it possible to fork living people but they haven't, dunno why."

"So what do they do about that?"

"Dunno. Probably whatever worked best for Mîr but I haven't actually been to Mîr."

"Huh."

"Mîr has, like, the most data, because they've got on-demand resurrection."

"Why doesn't everybody have that?"

"Same reason you can't summon terraformers to Calado, and same reason Loki doesn't just put planets in a different orbit so their seasons are right for Amentans. Stuff has a range limit."

"Dang."

"Yeah. Though dunno, lots of people are glad they're not in range of Mîr because they like their independence and stuff."